La gamba di Tamerlano. Contestualizzazione del sintomo e prospettiva metaculturale nell’etnopsichiatria di Georges Devereux

Abstract

The aim of the reflection of Georges Devereux is the establishment of a therapeutic practice in the ethnopsychiatric field, based on the complementary idea of the Danish mathematician Niels Bohr. This article will show how Devereux applies this principle to the studies on mental illness suffered by the Plains Indian during the mid-fifties, using his skills in the fields of anthropology and psychoanalysis. It will give a special attention to the case of Jimmy Picard, the main character of the famous essay Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian.

Keywords

• Devereux
• Etnopsychiatry